An Iranian ‘army’ has attacked one of the most prominent American Web sites late Thursday, according to an influential technology Web site.
The Iranian Cyber Army directed visitors away from Twitter and altered its Google summary, according to TechCrunch Friday morning.
Tweeters found the following message, according to TechCrunch:
Iranian Cyber Army
THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY
U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….
NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?
WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST
Take Care.
As a result of the cyber attack, Twitter was down for several hours, but appears to be running smoothly now. However, as a precaution, TechCrunch suggests changing any passwords that are the same as the one tied to Twitter.
As you may recall, Twitter played a high-profile role in the social and political upheaval following the controversial Iranian elections earlier this year. You could read more information on that in these file Tech Talk pieces here.
According to the Twitter blog:
“Twitter’s DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed. We are looking into the underlying cause and will update with more information soon.”
To read more, and see screengrabs, please read this TechCrunch report.
